Apartheid alive & well. In NZ.

[The Atheist]

Why? Problems of discrimination - racial and otherwise - beset all societies. Sure there may be unique aspects of the Maori but what society and racial minorities do not have unique dimensions?

Obviously.

The point I'm making is that if you haven't lived here, you almost certainly won't have a clue on the subject.

All the book-learning and Google in the world won't educate you about Glen Innes at 1 am Saturday. Same as me on US blacks - I don't know any personally, and I wouldn't claim to have any understanding of their problems. I recognise there are problems, but exactly what they are? No idea.

I'm glad we white women are absolved of blame.

No choice on that one - Maori were enfranchised before women, and St Helen was on the side of the [brown] angels, wasn't she?

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

All the book-learning and Google in the world won't educate you about Glen Innes at 1 am Saturday. Same as me on US blacks - I don't know any personally, and I wouldn't claim to have any understanding of their problems. I recognise there are problems, but exactly what they are? No idea.

I'm sure Rush Limbaugh could help you...

 

[six7s]

All the book-learning and Google in the world won't educate you about Glen Innes at 1 am Saturday

Boy-racing up and down Line Road won't educate about Glen Innes any more than swallowing goldfish pellets will make you a marine biologist

@TA:

Does it not follow that if you focus solely on symptoms you'll never understand the fundamental problems?
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[kerikiwi]

Does it not follow that if you focus solely on symptoms you'll never understand the fundamental problems?
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What, do you think, are the fundamental problems?

 

[lionking]

Does it not follow that if you focus solely on symptoms you'll never understand the fundamental problems?
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Symptoms of a disease still make it a disease. What is going to be done to cure the disease? The sorts of "solutions" outlined in the OP seem not to have achieved anything over the decades.

 

[Floyt]

Obviously.

The point I'm making is that if you haven't lived here, you almost certainly won't have a clue on the subject.

So you start a subject in an international forum and then proceed to call clueless on everyone who isn't from NZ? Miss Kitt takes the time to write what is probably the most thoughtful contribution in the thread, and you take the time to be a jerk in response?
Well done, that sure makes keeping up the parochialism a lot easier.

 

[The Atheist]

So you start a subject in an international forum and then proceed to call clueless on everyone who isn't from NZ? Miss Kitt takes the time to write what is probably the most thoughtful contribution in the thread, and you take the time to be a jerk in response?

You still sore?

Please explain how my reply to Miss Kitt is anything other than respectful. It seems that your understanding of English is at the same level of your understanding of the Maori issue/s, because if you're seeing that as being a jerk, you clearly didn't understand it.